How this portrait of Marc Chagall’s father finally wound up where it belonged
The 1911 painting was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939
The 1911 painting was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939
Lisa Oppenheim’s solo exhibition inverts Nazi archival photos to make the absence of stolen objects and stolen lives feel tangible
Some legal scholars say the law is an example of ‘compelled speech’ and may violate the First Amendment
The new law aims to educate museum-goers about the history behind certain artwork. But it doesn't account for the labyrinthine world of restitution.
A Dutch state committee charged with the restitution of looted Holocaust-era property received a strong rebuke from the country’s government in a report released Monday. The report followed a complaint published in the Dutch News outlet NRC Handelsblad by leaders of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe and the Jewish Claims Conference, which said…
Albert Speer, Hitler’s armaments minister and main architect, was known as “the Nazi who said sorry” for acknowledging his complicity in Nazi war crimes at the Nuremberg trials. While Speer maintained he never knew about the Holocaust, his daughter, Hilde Schramm, is spreading awareness of the genocide, and doing much more than apologizing for it….
BERLIN – A task force set up by the German government to determine the ownership history of more than 1,500 art works discovered in 2012 has found that only five were wrongfully taken from Jews, drawing criticism from Jewish groups. German tax inspectors discovered the art collection, which included works by Matisse and Picasso, during…
Yagna Yass-Alston, a Polish doctoral student, was on a fellowship in Israel last year when she visited the Museum of Art Ein Harod in the Jezreel Valley. She wanted to look at two paintings there for her dissertation research on Jewish art collectors in Krakow. Looking into the museum’s inventory files, a reference to a…
דער מחבר פֿונעם פֿראַנצייזישן אַרטיקל האָט געלעבט אין אַ נישט־אַשכּנזישער סבֿיבֿה אָבער איז געװען באַהאַװנט אין דער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור.
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